| Rank | Film (distributor) | Three-day gross (Feb 23-25) | Total gross to date | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bob Marley: One Love (Paramount) | £2.4m | £11.3m | 2 |
| 2. | Wicked Little Letters (Studiocanal) | £1.5m | £1.6m | 1 |
| 3. | Migration (Universal) | £1.5m | £16.4m | 4 |
| 4. | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The Hashira Training (Sony) | £641,878 | £641,878 | 1 |
| 5. | Madame Web (Sony) | £601,910 | £3.4m | 2 |
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Paramount’s Bob Marley: One Love rolled steady at the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, holding off competition from Studiocanal’s Wicked Little Letters to maintain top spot.
One Love recorded a £2.4m session – a 42.9% drop – pushing it to a decent £11.3m total.
Thea Sharrock’s UK-French comedy Wicked Little Letters opened to just over £1.5m from 685 sites, at a £2,242 location average. Including previews, the film has £1.6m.
Universal animation Migration coasted to a fourth weekend in the top five. The duck drama added just shy of £1.5m – a 46% drop – and is up to £16.4m total in a decent performance for the Illumination family title.
Sony’s release of anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To The HashiraTraining opened to £641,878 from 401 sites, at a £1,601 site average. It falls in the middle of the openings for 2021’s Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, with £693,288; and last year’s To The Swordsmith Village with £567,638.
Demon Slayer defeated Sony stablemate Madame Web, which dropped 53.7% on its second weekend with £601,910. The superheroine film has a flat £3.4m from two sessions.
Having rebounded significantly last time out, takings for the top five dropped 28.1% to £6.7m. Figures are also down 15.5% on the same weekend of last year; cinemas will be pinning hopes on Warner Bros blockbuster Dune: Part Two from next weekend, with many venues reporting strong presales.
Great Scott
Andrew Scott drew the audiences for National Theatre Live’s release of Vanya, the one-man version of Anton Chekov’s play. The event cinema title took £327,444 at the weekend, in addition to £768,872 from its Thursday February 22 opening, for a healthy £1.1m rolling total – NT Live’s best result since Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer in 2022.
Universal’s Argylle dropped 54% on its fourth weekend in cinemas, with £249,342 taking it to £5.6m total – below the usual £10m threshold of director Matthew Vaughn’s output.
Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw added £231,384 on its third weekend – a 44.5% drop for Lionsgate, that took the film to £2.1m total.
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest added £221,346 on its fourth session, dropping 23.1% – less than the market average. The A24 drama has £2.3m in total.
Now on its sixth weekend, Paramount’s Mean Girls musical added a further £190,000 and is up to £8.9m.
Sony’s Anyone But You starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney continued its excellent run into a ninth weekend, adding £186,509 to hit a £11.2m total. It is comfortably the highest-grossing romantic comedy since the pandemic, ahead of the £9.9m of 2022’s Ticket To Paradise and the £4.8m of last year’s What’s Love Got To Do With It?.
Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers leads Disney’s slate, and took £155,437 on its fifth weekend to hit a strong £4.9m total.
Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated Perfect Days made an excellent start, taking £140,340 at the weekend from just 69 sites at a £2,034 average. Including previews, the Mubi title has £175,599.
Poor Things added £138,091 on its seventh weekend for Disney, falling just 22%; and is up to £7.1m total.
Cord Jefferson’s Oscar-nominated American Fiction added £95,273 on its fourth weekend in cinemas, and is now at almost £1.3m for Curzon.
French Oscar entry The Taste Of Things added a tasty £70,789 on its second weekend, falling 42.7%; and has £407,554. A final cume of more than £500,000 looks likely, and would be a decent result for Picturehouse Entertainment.
The Holdovers added £68,187 on a decent sixth weekend in cinemas for Universal; the Alexander Payne film is up to £3.6m total.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer keeps finding an audience each time Universal puts it back in more cinemas. Now in its 32nd consecutive weekend, the historical drama increased its takings by 183% on the previous session, with £48,051 taking it to £58.8m total as the 27th -highest-grossing film ever in the territory.
The Beekeeper starring Jason Statham added £35,777 for Sky Cinema, released by Studiocanal; and has £3.8m from six weekends.
Elysian Film’s The Boy And The Heron added £31,080 on its ninth weekend, dropping just 16% and crossing the £5m mark.
This is a remarkable achievement for the Japanese animation; the previous highest-grossing Studio Ghibli title was 2003’s Spirited Away with £1.1m, while its last release The Wind Rises took £755,730 in 2014.
Signature Entertainment’s French animation The Jungle Bunch World Tour added £26,693 on its third weekend, and has £285,228 in total.
Hong Kong crime drama The Moon Thieves took £22,252 across its full opening for Central City Media.
Studiocanal horror Baghead is closing out with £14,321 on its fifth weekend taking it to £961,493.
Stone Age horror Out Of Darkness from Screen Star of Tomorrow director Andrew Cumming and writer Ruth Greenberg opened to £12,100 for Signature Entertainment, and has £17,089 including previews.
Michel Franco’s Venice 2023 title Memory started with £8,445 for Bohemia Media/Miracle.